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0 pointsTade02y ago0 comments

I suppose it's the chemistry that's going on in there.

In principle it's all simple, but what exactly happens inside is not as well studied as combustion engines.

Case in point: this year researchers found out that a type of tape used in li-ion batteries is actually not chemically stable in this environment and replacing it with a different material increased lifespan by 10% and decreased self-discharge by 70%:

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-tape-lithium-ion-batteri...

Plenty of other stories of this type - one of them brought LFP batteries into the limelight, because researchers figured out how to close to double their capacity.

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stavros2y ago

Huh, interesting. We've used Li-ion batteries for decades, so I wouldn't have guessed we'd still have such fundamental things we didn't know about them.

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